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diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst index 2509380..52a505e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst @@ -691,16 +691,13 @@ The following exceptions are used as warning categories; see the .. exception:: PendingDeprecationWarning - Base class for warnings about features which will be deprecated in the - future. + Base class for warnings about features which are obsolete and + expected to be deprecated in the future, but are not deprecated + at the moment. - .. note:: - PendingDeprecationWarning was introduced as an "ignored by default" - version of DeprecationWarning. But :exc:`DeprecationWarning` is also - ignored by default since Python 2.7 and 3.2. - There is not much difference between PendingDeprecationWarning and - DeprecationWarning nowadays. DeprecationWarning is recommended - in general. + This class is rarely used as emitting a warning about a possible + upcoming deprecation is unusual, and :exc:`DeprecationWarning` + is preferred for already active deprecations. .. exception:: SyntaxWarning |